http://blog.internetnews.com/dneedle/ Eye of the Needle - Insights from Silicon Valley and beyond. en-us Copyright 2010 Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:00:52 -0500 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/ http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification Like any good pundit, Rob Enderle knows how to stir things up. You may have read some of Rob’s commentary at our sister site, Datamation. For example, he’s regularly bombarded with hate mail by iPhone fans for criticizing Apple’s strategy... http://blog.internetnews.com/dneedle/2010/03/time-for-googles-eric-schmidt.html http://blog.internetnews.com/dneedle/2010/03/time-for-googles-eric-schmidt.html Eric Schmidt Google iPhone search engines Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:00:52 -0500 Remember that Seinfeld episode where George sleeps with the cleaning lady at his new job and then pleads ignorance: “Was that wrong? Because no one told me it was when I was hired,” he complains, before being fired. Well, it’s... http://blog.internetnews.com/dneedle/2010/02/intern-fired-in-techcrunch-bro.html http://blog.internetnews.com/dneedle/2010/02/intern-fired-in-techcrunch-bro.html MacBook Air TechCrunch Teens in Tech Fri, 05 Feb 2010 14:09:07 -0500 YouTube is the latest to give a big thumbs up to shorter links. Today, the video megasite said it’s launched youtu.be as a shortener for, and only for, YouTube video links. “…so you can rest assured that when you see... http://blog.internetnews.com/dneedle/2009/12/youtube-hops-on-new-link-short.html http://blog.internetnews.com/dneedle/2009/12/youtube-hops-on-new-link-short.html link shorteners Twitter YouTube Mon, 21 Dec 2009 20:29:22 -0500 What do you do when you’re the number four or five player in search with a single-digit share? Hopefully something different — and compelling. That’s what the folks at Ask.com have in mind. Actually their strategy is both different and... http://blog.internetnews.com/dneedle/2009/11/askcom-heading-back-to-the-fut.html http://blog.internetnews.com/dneedle/2009/11/askcom-heading-back-to-the-fut.html Ask.com Facebook search Tue, 24 Nov 2009 02:22:19 -0500 I’m guessing not many folks at Google are old enough to remember Adam Osborne (though CEO Eric Schmidt is one). Back in the ’80s Osborne’s namesake Osborne Computer Corp. introduced the first popular portable computer. In those days, a 25-pound... http://blog.internetnews.com/dneedle/2009/11/google-laughs-off-osborne-effe.html http://blog.internetnews.com/dneedle/2009/11/google-laughs-off-osborne-effe.html Chrome OS Google iPhone netbooks Osborne Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:56:21 -0500 When the big boy kicks sand in your face, you can either go home and sulk or make jokes about what big feet the bully has. You’ve gotta love upstart Zoho for taking the second course of action. An early... http://blog.internetnews.com/dneedle/2009/11/zoho-takes-pride-in-microsofts.html http://blog.internetnews.com/dneedle/2009/11/zoho-takes-pride-in-microsofts.html Microsoft Office Zoho Thu, 05 Nov 2009 19:03:14 -0500 Embargoes — can’t live with them, can’t live without them. That was one of several themes running through a spirited discussion among tech journalists and PR people last night. For the uninitiated, embargoes are the controversial process where a tech... http://blog.internetnews.com/dneedle/2009/10/this-tech-news-is-not-embargoe.html http://blog.internetnews.com/dneedle/2009/10/this-tech-news-is-not-embargoe.html blog CNET New York Times news PBS tech reporters Fri, 30 Oct 2009 18:51:44 -0500 Oddly enough, there’s a company eager to stake the claim of World’s Ugliest Web site. “Over the past few months, our team has visited thousands of Web sites, and none is as ugly as Guidezilla,” said Ryan Duques of WD... http://blog.internetnews.com/dneedle/2009/10/last-chance-to-see-worlds-ugli.html http://blog.internetnews.com/dneedle/2009/10/last-chance-to-see-worlds-ugli.html Off The Beat Guidezilla Web site Wed, 14 Oct 2009 21:01:07 -0500 Atigeo will have its formal coming out party next week at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco. CEO and co-founder Michael Sandoval is a former director of partner strategy and general manager at Microsoft where he worked for ten... http://blog.internetnews.com/dneedle/2009/10/data-intelligence-firm-lands-i.html http://blog.internetnews.com/dneedle/2009/10/data-intelligence-firm-lands-i.html Atigeo Lifepass Web 2.0 Summit xPatterns Mon, 12 Oct 2009 18:30:24 -0500 Remember Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer’s famous jab at the iPhone when it first came out at a $500 price? “…that is the most expensive phone in the world and it doesn’t appeal to business customers because it doesn’t have a... http://blog.internetnews.com/dneedle/2009/10/why-steve-ballmer-now-digs-hig.html http://blog.internetnews.com/dneedle/2009/10/why-steve-ballmer-now-digs-hig.html Smartphones Armani Samsung Steve Ballmer Windows Mobile 6.5 Mon, 12 Oct 2009 15:10:21 -0500 The next great car safety breakthrough could come from outer space. Ford Motor Company and Auburn University said a joint research project shows global positioning system (GPS) satellites that “talks” to cars could help prevent accidents in the future. The... http://blog.internetnews.com/dneedle/2009/10/is-gps-that-talks-to-cars-a-sa.html http://blog.internetnews.com/dneedle/2009/10/is-gps-that-talks-to-cars-a-sa.html car safety Ford GPS Volvo Fri, 09 Oct 2009 18:23:00 -0500 Google and the Wharton School think it can help provide some of the answers. The two are teaming up on “Fast. Forward” a new YouTube channel that features short, 30 sec - 3 minute videos from industry and academic thought... http://blog.internetnews.com/dneedle/2009/10/whats-the-future-of-advertisin.html http://blog.internetnews.com/dneedle/2009/10/whats-the-future-of-advertisin.html Google Wharton YouTube Fri, 02 Oct 2009 00:52:32 -0500 The name EDS, long synonymous with high end, IT outsourcing and consulting services, is going away. Today HP brought the consulting giant further into its fold with the announcement that EDS has been renamed HP Enterprise Services. Hewlett-Packard bought EDS... http://blog.internetnews.com/dneedle/2009/09/hp-says-goodbye-to-eds-name.html http://blog.internetnews.com/dneedle/2009/09/hp-says-goodbye-to-eds-name.html Dell EDS HP Perot Systems Wed, 23 Sep 2009 15:20:34 -0500 Too much good stuff for even a lengthy blog post about last night’s Larry Ellison’s event. In my earlier blog I focused on his comments regarding Oracle’s purchase of Sun. “We’re keeping everything,” Ellison said in rousing affirmation of his... http://blog.internetnews.com/dneedle/2009/09/oracles-larry-ellison-unplugge.html http://blog.internetnews.com/dneedle/2009/09/oracles-larry-ellison-unplugge.html Larry Ellison Oracle Sun Tue, 22 Sep 2009 19:01:42 -0500 SAN JOSE, Calif. — Larry Ellison was on fire Monday night. Steve Jobs is the unquestioned master of the pre-rehearsed, carefully choreographed event speech complete with new technology props, but for off-the-cuff, tell ‘em like I see ‘em, entertaining bluster,... http://blog.internetnews.com/dneedle/2009/09/ellison-sun-losing-100-million.html http://blog.internetnews.com/dneedle/2009/09/ellison-sun-losing-100-million.html EC IBM Larry Ellison Oracle Sun Tue, 22 Sep 2009 02:49:06 -0500